John, I somewhat agree with your preference for RSS over the social feed. Personally, I use Granary to actually bring Mastodon into my feed. For me, this allows me to become less of a slave to the ever current stream. I sometimes wonder though if this is bad faith as I assume I am not nessecarily following the rules on the packet, this can mean engaging in conversations out of time.
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Great to see this script used in the wild for the first time John! And good to see it just works. Well, sort of. I’m glad you had the authorization
This seem so promising Frank and John. I have followed Drummer with intrigue, read Amit Gawande’s breakdown, but wondered where it fits with my current practices. I was intrigued by the connection with Micro Blogs. However, it was not until your post sharing the ability to connect with WordPress that I started to properly think about how I might use Drummer. I can imagine using it for ‘micro’ posts, but as you touch on, I am still unsure how this fits into with things like Post Kinds etc.
I guess I will have to start playing.
john (johnjohnston.info)Given that we have just enabled blocks on Glow Blogs I am glad classic will continue to be supported. I am still on classic here too.
John, that is good news.
One of the interesting aspects to having two sites is running two different setups. I still use the Classic Editor Plugin for my Collect blog and have started tinkering with Gutenberg in my main blog. I find blocks really cumbersome and appreciate Tony Hirst’s sentiments. I actually often carve out my posts in my Collect blog and copy the contents across, but the translation to blocks can be rather frustrating. On top of that, I am not sure where it leaves Post Kinds, which I guess is the point Ton Zijlstra is trying to make.
The latest version of Semantic-Linkbacks has fixed facepiles on my blog. I always grateful, even though I donβt do much about it for all the work of the #Indiweb and #WordPress developers.
I agree John. I help where I can, but it never really feels like enough.
john (johnjohnston.info)The RSS feed from Glow Blogs is not optimised for podcasts so I used Feedburner to create one. You need a google account to set up on Feedburner. Once you have done that you add your RSS feed from your blog to Feedburner and tick the podcast box.
A couple of days ago I noticed the webmentions from bridgy had stopped coming in to this blog. It took me a while but I eventually noticed that the icons an links to syndicated posts were not showing up on my posts.
I really like your point John about ‘technical debt’:
I am again reminded about the technical debt in using IndieWeb technologies on this blog without the full understanding of what is going on.
I recently went looking for where I changed the footer of my blog to update the images. Spent thirty minutes looking. Gave up.
I am still glad I do it, but I do sometimes worry. On the positive side, it really helps with my work in supporting others and thinking of what questions to consider. Also highlights the importance of clear documentation.
I too missed John’s search tool. Thank you for sharing it Ian. I think it is a reminder why it is useful to have multiple points of reference for ideas and information.
This has me thinking about Chris Aldrich’s recent reference to blogrolls and OPML files. I wonder if something could be added to be able to search across the various sites listed on your own site?
Some interesting changes to WordPress functions.
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Watched What are Containers and Cloud Hosting?
and Creating New Environments in Reclaim Cloud β YouTube
Reclaim Cloud β Reclaim Your Adventure! looks interesting. Might poke around in the beta, but probably way over my head, needs and pay gradeβ¦
I agree John. Definitely looks interesting, just not sure it is for me. I guess we will see.
john (johnjohnston.info)In normal times I listen to podcasts. As I do this on a commute Iβve only listened to 2 episodes since schools shut. I miss it.
When listening I often want to remember something for later, perhaps for a blog post or like, usually this ends in frustration as my memory fails. I imagined a podcast pl…
I really wish there was a way of automating the podcasts I listen to on Android. One of the other issues is that they actually reference the canonical link.
john (johnjohnston.info)A lot to unpack in this. I was naively optimistic about open sharing (& about knowledge of copyright & licenses spreading).
I too have been caught out in my optimism. I have learnt it is messy.
Or if you wanted to take a step further
=GOOGLETRANSLATE(A1, DETECTLANGUAGE(A1), "en") via Ben Collins.Responding to John Johnston’s discussion of the value of blogging as a space for sharing, Ian Guest wonders about the various features associated with Twitter.
Perhaps not necessarily ‘lost’ John, but as @claganach implied, decidedly harder to find?
I guess few folks make much use of the ‘archiving’/cataloguing’ features such as Moments & Bookmarks? And Liking of course seems to have been repurposed from Favoriting. π€β Ian Guest (@IaninSheffield) May 6, 2020
One thing I wonder about sharing spaces is not what is technically possible – Twitter actually includes quite a few features to help users, such as hashtags, saved searches, bookmarks and moments to name a few – the question is how easy is it to personally mine this information and subsequently build upon it?Β This was the point that both Cal Newport and Austin Kleon have recently touched upon, sharing the power of a space of one’s own.
Gif the dub is a toy that mashes up gifs from giphy and sounds from freesound.
John Johnston takes gifs to a new level with this dub machine.
john (johnjohnston.info)I am very lucky in having a supportive wife, my daughter is grown and away, Iβve little in the way of home responsibilities. Iβve no ide how you would manage if you had kids at home or a partner that needed the living room space tooβ¦
Your discussion of introducing Microsoft Teams reminded me of Rolin Moe’s remarks that,
You canβt teach someone to swim while theyβre drowning.
Certainly does sound exhausting.
In regards to space, I sometimes have the assistant principal trying to touch base with everyone and Ms 9 on WebEx. I am grateful that it is not yet winter over hear therefore allowing me to be able to setup in our alfresco when needs be.
Top one plays on Android in Chrome, but not the bottom.
john (johnjohnston.info)This is exciting Aaron, testing the reply feature on my desktop now.
HMM, I need to manually add the response properties in my blog. Not sure if that is due to your emoji in title orβ¦
I know that emojis have been an issue in the past, however I manually remove it from the slug these days (see url
https://collect.readwriterespond.com/indigenous-for-desktop/). The only emojis are in the title?
I think that you have touched upon my only concern/frustration with Micropub/sub Readers. They do not seem to populate Response Proporties box. Although it is far from ideal, I prefer to populate these and even add my own custom quote. I also lose control over the headings associated with responses, listens, likes etc … I agree to this as a standard, but there is a part of me that likes having a heading and an emoji to go with this. Each to there own I guess. My dream would be to be able to decide what fields are available, like a custom client that matches up with the various microformats.
john (johnjohnston.info)Iβve found the IndieWeb to be tricky, bits donβt work for me, or need twiddling, or more time and knowledge than I have. I see it as an add on from the activity of blogging, which Iβll do anyway. It is not in opposition to mastodon or federation, but for me is just a few more cogs and pipes. If the IndieWeb breaks or goes away my blog will still be there. If twitter explodes the replies to my blog posts will still be in my database.
I really like this way of putting the whole IndieWeb venture. My site is called ‘Read Write Respond‘ (and Collect) because first and foremost, as a blogger, that is what I do. Maybe there is privilege involved in that as Doug touches upon in his Microcast. However, for now I will plough on.